In this video, Bridgeen Rea‑Kaya guides viewers through a chocolate meditation, a mindful‑eating exercise designed for the festive season. She begins by introducing the practice, emphasizing its relevance at Christmas when chocolate is abundant, and suggests using dark chocolate or other small foods. The meditation proceeds step‑by‑step: holding the chocolate, examining its appearance, smelling it, even listening to it, and contemplating the global journey of its ingredients. She then instructs viewers to place the chocolate on their lip, notice saliva, move it to the mouth, observe how the tongue positions it, and savor the taste as it melts, encouraging a pause before swallowing. Throughout, she highlights gratitude for the chocolate and the sensation of fullness that often follows a single piece. Bridgeen shares anecdotal evidence that mindful eating can aid weight loss, though she uses it primarily for enjoyment. The video concludes with an invitation to attend her upcoming workshops (May 9 at Maytree, May 13 charity night at Namaste on Omer Road, and May 16 a two‑hour session at Namaste) for deeper meditation experiences.
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Hello! Today I'm going to share with you how to do chocolate meditation. So it's perfect for this time of year, at Christmas time. Every office, every home, everywhere you go, you'll probably see a tub of these somewhere. And how do you stop eating the whole thing? And how do you actually really enjoy it if you're gonna have one? At my upcoming workshops on the 9th, 13th, and 16th, I'm gonna do this with people, and there will be an option If you're one of these healthy people, which is a really good idea, is to have dark chocolate, not too much sugar. So you can do it with your dark chocolate, or you can try it with a tangerine or a grape. But for today, we're going to do it with a random chocolate from the box. And I'm gonna look at my chocolate, I'm gonna put it in my hand, and I'm going to examine it as if I haven't seen anything like this before. Hmm. I might even hold it up to my nose. Mmm, smells good. I might even put it to my ear. Is it trying to tell me anything? Eat me? I hear something saying eat me. So I take my time and I unwrap it, and while I'm doing this, I might like to consider, you know, everything that's gone into this chocolate. The cocoa, obviously it's not from Ireland. It was grown somewhere in a sunny country. All the different people that have spent time making this. Possible, sending the ingredients for this chocolate across the world, packaging it, producing it, even driving it to the supermarket so that I could go and buy it. So have a wee contemplation about that, and then have another little lick of my chocolate. Hold it up to the light. Be curious, be interested. Wow, it's precious to eat. How lucky it is to have Have something like this that I can eat. So yeah, it still says, eat me. It does smell good, and when you notice this, when you smell your food, what you might observe is that saliva starts to get produced in the mouth. And then I do this thing when I teach this, I torture you a wee bit, and I say, put it on your lip and just hold it there for a moment and notice what comes up. Mmm. Wanting, not wanting, just observing how it is, giving yourself a pause. So just for the purposes of me still being able to talk, I'm going to use a little bit of dark chocolate, and I'm going to— and this is if you're doing this with me at home— I want you to place your chocolate inside the mouth. And when you do that, just notice how the tongue knows exactly where to put it. Maybe roll it around a little bit, and then you can take a bite. Notice the taste, the flavor. Savor it. Enjoy it. Allow yourself to melt as the chocolate melts. If you're starting to swallow, maybe you can trace the journey down. This could take a long time. We'll be here quite a while depending on the size of your chocolate, the contents of it. But when we slow, when we eat like this, we really savour, we really taste, we really appreciate. Just one chocolate can satisfy. One chocolate can be enough. I've had several students who have taken this concept of mindful eating And use it to help them lose weight. I don't personally use it for that reason, but it is a really enjoyable way to eat chocolate. And when it's gone, when it's no longer there, just check in with yourself. Notice how you feel. Was that one chocolate enough? And many times it is. Often I've done this and I pass around the chocolates again, Would anyone like another one? And a lot of people say no. They feel satisfied. One was enough. So I encourage you to give that a go. Try it the next time you see one of these tempting you in your office. And if you'd like to try it with a group of people, maybe a bit longer, maybe a bit more time together, come to my workshops on the 9th in Maytree on a Sunday morning. On the 13th, it's a charity night in Namaste on the Omer Road. And again, in Namaste on the 16th, I have a 2-hour workshop. We'll be doing lots of nice, festive, relaxing timeout meditations. So I hope to see you then. I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you.
